The Power of Hydration

Failure doesn't exist in Lifestyle Change!!

Lifestyle change takes deliberate steady changes over time to take effect.  You have your whole life to get it right.  Would you say that a toddler learning to tie his shoe is a failure until he accomplished it for the first time?  What about when he gets it all confused a couple years down the road?  The answer is still NO.  It is a learning process not a failure.  You have to struggle and experiment to see which way works best and will carry you for the rest of your life.  When my oldest daughter was learning to tie her shoes we started with the standard method of making a loop and wrapping the other string around it and tucking it in to make the second loop.  For a three year old, this proved to be a difficult process.  So we switched to the method of making two loops and tying them together.  This made the difference, she finally understood what was going on and started tying her shoes.  Later that year, however, after she had gotten more proficient, decided to go back to the first method because it seemed like a better method.  Now years later, she ties them quite well having perfected the method in her own way.
       We don't ever read a story like that and think failure is involved, but when it comes to other areas like eating better and exercising, or separating from old habits and starting new ones, we say things like "falling off the wagon" and the worst word ever, "can't".  If you determine that something is good for you and this is the way you want your life to look down the road then start figuring out what it will take to have that.  Feel free to try multiple methods over time to see what works best for you.  Start gradual and let your body, mind and spirit learn and grow.  You will start to see patterns of things that don't work and things that get in your way, as well as things that work very well and things that help encourage you.  Find a way to get more of the positive and less of the negative.  This is called growth.  Do not let yourself get into the faulty circle of making deadlines and resolutions which all have time periods attached to them and almost always lead to "failure".  Make decisions instead about what you want your life to look like and then begin a process of growth to get there.  Some things will take your whole life to be proficient and some things you will pick up very quickly.  If it is your life, it cannot be a failure.
       And always find others to help teach you and support you along the road, just like you are learning to tie your shoes all over again.  Happy Journeys and PLEASE share some of the roads you are traveling down or have traveled and what the scenery looks like along the way.